Academics, policy makers, and professionals discussed the current state of female employment in America on Friday at "The New Majority? The Past, Present, and Future of Women in the Workplace" symposium.

Clara Goldberg Schiffer took adversity in stride. She was committed to improving the lives of working women. A group of scholars and professionals involved with the labor movement, workplace law, and social policy gathered at the Radcliffe Institute to pay tribute to Schiffer's accomplishments and to explore both the legacy and the future of working women in the United States.﻿

Fellow Pam Silver discusses how biology will be the technology of this young century. During the past 50 years, biology has developed from a soft science that described macroscopic phenomena into a reductionistic discipline that aims to explain life in terms of chemistry and physics.

Lynne Jones came to the Radcliffe Institute to write a memoir about her decades of work helping address and understand children's mental-health needs. The fellowship also gave her time to contribute to an academic study of the mental health of displaced children.